It Was in the File

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Daisy sat in my room and said the sentence that should have been said fifteen years ago.

Because of your autism diagnosis, you qualify for IDD services.

I wasn’t entirely surprised. I’d already started looking into care options beyond the nursing home, and I’d learned that some places give IDD services to someone with autism and others don’t. I just didn’t know which kind this area was, or whether I qualified. So when she said it, part of me was ready for it.

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It Was in the File